RE: Normal Uranium or Natural Uranium?

["Nardi, A. Joseph" <nardiaj@WESTINGHOUSE.COM>]

I have always used the convention that natural uranium included the

daughters and normal uranium was the same as "processed uranium" which has

had the daughters removed but is the same isotopic composition.  About 38

years ago I was asked the very same question when I interviewed for a job

with the USAEC.



A. Joseph Nardi

Supervisory Engineer

Environment, Health and Safety

Westinghouse Electric Company

Phone: (412) 374-4652

Email: nardiaj@westinghouse.com







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> From: 	RuthWeiner@AOL.COM[SMTP:RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

> Reply To: 	RuthWeiner@AOL.COM

> Sent: 	Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:40 PM

> To: 	loc@icx.net; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject: 	Re: Normal Uranium or Natural Uranium?

> 

> I never heard of "normal uranium,"  Any mixture of U-235, U-234, and U-238

> that contains exactly the same fractions of these three isotopes as

> natural uranium, and contains only these three, would be indistinguishable

> from nartural uranium. 

> 

> Ruth Weiner, Ph. D. 

> ruthweiner@aol.com

> 

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